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Mike,
It's suprising how many of my pilot friends have a story about an engine failure followed by a forced landing. Hmm, than you must have a statistically highly unlikely combination of friends. Engine failures are EXTREMELY rare events and even rarer as the cause of fatal accidents. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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Mike Noel wrote:
It's suprising how many of my pilot friends have a story about an engine failure followed by a forced landing. I'd be more surprised with those that managed to continue flight, after an engine failure... |
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Good Thermal day. Wouldn't that make a great hangar flying tale, " Lost my
engine 100 miles from the nearest airport, but managed to work thermals all the way back home in my Cherokee!" This might even bring up a serious operational point for emergency procedures. -- Regards, Mike http://mywebpage.netscape.com/amountainaero/fspic1.html "Darrel Toepfer" wrote in message ... Mike Noel wrote: It's suprising how many of my pilot friends have a story about an engine failure followed by a forced landing. I'd be more surprised with those that managed to continue flight, after an engine failure... |
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"Mike Noel" wrote in message
... Good Thermal day. Wouldn't that make a great hangar flying tale, " Lost my engine 100 miles from the nearest airport, but managed to work thermals all the way back home in my Cherokee!" This might even bring up a serious operational point for emergency procedures. Had to do it once, not with an engine failure, but with the carb heat stuck on (cable broke) when carrying out a practise forced landing. With full power and 2 notches of flap (Cherokee 140) we had a 200fpm descent...at low altitude on final for a field when power was applied to climb out. Easing the flaps up got us low over the trees but only level. I got into a thermal and spiralled upwards to get enough height to transit back to the airport. This was in Florida when it was hot. Paul |
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Engine failures are not rare with piston aircraft engines. I know a pilot
with 16 failures in Beach 18s alone and I read somewhere that about 10% of Malibus have had partial or total engine failures. Mike MU-2 "Thomas Borchert" wrote in message ... Mike, It's suprising how many of my pilot friends have a story about an engine failure followed by a forced landing. Hmm, than you must have a statistically highly unlikely combination of friends. Engine failures are EXTREMELY rare events and even rarer as the cause of fatal accidents. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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"Mike Rapoport" writes:
Engine failures are not rare with piston aircraft engines. I know a pilot with 16 failures in Beach 18s alone and I read somewhere that about 10% of Malibus have had partial or total engine failures. Neat. But as far as your average spam can with O320-O360-O470 engines, are engine failures really all that common? We all know someone who had that happen, but I bet we all know a whole lot more of someones who never had that happen. Just a guess though. -jav |
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Mike,
Sentences starting with I know a pilot rarely follow up with valid statistics. And the statistics say it's a minor occurence across all of piston GA. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:41:36 +0200, Thomas Borchert
wrote: Mike, Sentences starting with I know a pilot rarely follow up with valid statistics. And the statistics say it's a minor occurence across all of piston GA. And the stats are highly unreliable. How many of this type in incident go unreported? If nothing happens it doesn't even require reporting. I had the diaphragm fail on the fuel distribution block on top of the engine. Unfortunately I was somewhere between 30 and 50 feet climbing at 100 MPH. The engine quit dead. I landed, coasted off the runway, and had it fixed. BTW, it drove home the point to me at least, all that training paid off. There was absolutely no stopping to think about what to do. I know the feel of the plane and my body reacted by lowering the nose to keep the control pressure the same. I landed without incident and not even a need to change underwear. I was surprised at how little runway it took to climb to that altitude at that speed and land. It's like using the stats on VFR flight into IMC. How many who survive are going to admit it. I would expect those stats to be highly skewed and the problem to be much more frequent than the data shows. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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What statistics? There are no statistics on piston engine failures that I
know of. How about: "every pilot I have ever met with over 10,000hrs in piston airplanes has had at least one engine failure"? It is interesting that the NTSB does not even require a report if a piston engine fails. Mike MU-2 "Thomas Borchert" wrote in message ... Mike, Sentences starting with I know a pilot rarely follow up with valid statistics. And the statistics say it's a minor occurence across all of piston GA. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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I agree that the record is probably better with the less stressed engines.
I guess it depends on one's definition of "common". If it is likely to occur in a lifetime of flying, say 5000hrs, then I would say that it is not "rare". Mike MU-2 "Javier Henderson" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" writes: Engine failures are not rare with piston aircraft engines. I know a pilot with 16 failures in Beach 18s alone and I read somewhere that about 10% of Malibus have had partial or total engine failures. Neat. But as far as your average spam can with O320-O360-O470 engines, are engine failures really all that common? We all know someone who had that happen, but I bet we all know a whole lot more of someones who never had that happen. Just a guess though. -jav |
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